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Yes but...
The system is currently set up so that if you're brave and forthright and honest and decent and take the high road and say 'Yes, our product is intrinsically dangerous, but people are adults and can make their own choices.' you will be CRUCIFIED in court.
The lawyers on the other side will take the low road and say 'SEE??? HE *ADMITS* IT!!'
That's because people are not adults but babies in the eyes of the State. The State is intrinsically motivated to see people like that because it gives the State an excuse to slap a few more bars on everyone's cage 'for their own good, of course! Not because we are lusting after power at all!'
Because of this behavior corporations must also take the low road and do things like lie about cigarettes so they can shrug in court and go 'We had no idea, your Honour!' and calculate the cost benefits of fixing the Pinto against paying the estimated law suits, etc.
People deride this as soulless capitalism but they are the first in line to put the diapers on when it looks like a payday at the expense of the suits.
That's a cool article thanks for pointing that out. And thanks for the props for the other post - I was wondering if I got as bit too theatrical for it.
The entire system will fly even more out of control of the courts, lawyers, suits, VPs in charge of things even more so then it is now.
People will be running encrypted private channels to each other all over hell's half acre and sending mp3s, videos, and pr0n everywhere and no one will even know its happening.
Creativity no one could possibly imagine will explode even more so than now.
The politically incorrect will run their annoying but harmless web sites much to the caterwauling of certain loud people, and, yes, the kiddy porners will run their kiddy porn and the cops will have a hard but not impossible time tracking them down.
People will be taking advantage and other people HATE when that happens.
The call will ring out for a crackdown, but the only place it's easy being a policeman is in a police state and that's what we will be moving AWAY from with these new disruptive technologies
Then, one day, it will all come to a head.
The whole net in the USA goes through a few choke points (more ever day but still only a few)
By sizing these few points, banning cryptography (except for their friends the credit card companies of course) and implementing Total Information Awareness the US government can ALMOST control the whole net. They can certainly screw it up real good.
Then, treating censorship as damage, the world's data flow will go AROUND the USA and America will have lost the net.
Who does the net belong to? The users or the suits?
This matter will get bigger and bigger, approaching critical mass.
So let's try it THIS way - suppose you're an ISP admin and all - or a large number - of your users all get the sort of same message at sort of the same time.
That's a lot of uncertainty, BUT if Bayesian software can flag that sort of thing, and I think it can, we can build a great tool here.
I remember when I applied for a Mead mailing list and got a nasty letter back saying 'your SPAM has been rejected!' just because I sent it from a Rogers.com address, so I know what it's like to be blacklisted like in SPEWS, and it sucks. That's not the way to do it.
Also, this new spam program retaliates and the law is very nasty about vigilantism and retaliation, perhaps because it threatens their monopoly. I don't want to see a spammer WIN in court, do you?
Also, program like popfile doe a great job of removing spam.
My advice is to forget kicking the spammers ass and just make their work vanish down a black hole like it will WHEN BAYESIAN TECHNIQUES ARE USED AT THE ISP END hint hint...
What they should do is have transparent encryption on the disk and let the user turn it off with a ctrl-alt-del-like key sequence then use a password when he gets back to turn it back on.
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Yes but...
The system is currently set up so that if you're brave and forthright and honest and decent and take the high road and say 'Yes, our product is intrinsically dangerous, but people are adults and can make their own choices.' you will be CRUCIFIED in court.
The lawyers on the other side will take the low road and say 'SEE??? HE *ADMITS* IT!!'
That's because people are not adults but babies in the eyes of the State. The State is intrinsically motivated to see people like that because it gives the State an excuse to slap a few more bars on everyone's cage 'for their own good, of course! Not because we are lusting after power at all!'
Because of this behavior corporations must also take the low road and do things like lie about cigarettes so they can shrug in court and go 'We had no idea, your Honour!' and calculate the cost benefits of fixing the Pinto against paying the estimated law suits, etc.
People deride this as soulless capitalism but they are the first in line to put the diapers on when it looks like a payday at the expense of the suits.
Is a nice simple mp3 to ogg converter for windows.
Anyone got any ideas?
You can bet they will. Go Disney!
fit in your pants it would be even more Japanese.
Or is this video-games-over the phone thing the geekiest thing you have ever seen?
What the hell is the matter with us? GET AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER ONCE IN A WHILE.
And I say this as a primordial geek from back before there was dirt. (The 70s)
I read it and you're right, I should have read it sooner.
But I must confess that I didn't even try to read it as I assumed it had to be slashdotted.
They'll pursue this for a while then quit - the false positives will be off the hook.
The thing is, most MMORG players in the USA are loyal Americans who'd love to help. Spying on them is just buring down the house to roast a pig.
Call it Mordor.
That's a cool article thanks for pointing that out. And thanks for the props for the other post - I was wondering if I got as bit too theatrical for it.
The entire system will fly even more out of control of the courts, lawyers, suits, VPs in charge of things even more so then it is now.
People will be running encrypted private channels to each other all over hell's half acre and sending mp3s, videos, and pr0n everywhere and no one will even know its happening.
Creativity no one could possibly imagine will explode even more so than now.
The politically incorrect will run their annoying but harmless web sites much to the caterwauling of certain loud people, and, yes, the kiddy porners will run their kiddy porn and the cops will have a hard but not impossible time tracking them down.
People will be taking advantage and other people HATE when that happens.
The call will ring out for a crackdown, but the only place it's easy being a policeman is in a police state and that's what we will be moving AWAY from with these new disruptive technologies
Then, one day, it will all come to a head.
The whole net in the USA goes through a few choke points (more ever day but still only a few)
By sizing these few points, banning cryptography (except for their friends the credit card companies of course) and implementing Total Information Awareness the US government can ALMOST control the whole net. They can certainly screw it up real good.
Then, treating censorship as damage, the world's data flow will go AROUND the USA and America will have lost the net.
Who does the net belong to? The users or the suits?
This matter will get bigger and bigger, approaching critical mass.
And then, one way or the other, it will tip.
It's not that they sue you, it's that they threaten to sue your ISP unless they instantly shitcan your account, which, surprise, they do.
If the libelous blog is published anonymously from a server in, say, Lebanon?
There's only two real rules in cyberspace that apply everywhere.
1 - Large prime factors are hard to find.
2 - Everything is a bitstream.
That's it - everything else is a matter of quaint local customs and luck, good or bad.
Look bro - kiddy porn is the root password to the Constitution (along with drug possession) so yes they WILL bust your ass anyway.
Ok, point taken.
So let's try it THIS way - suppose you're an ISP admin and all - or a large number - of your users all get the sort of same message at sort of the same time.
That's a lot of uncertainty, BUT if Bayesian software can flag that sort of thing, and I think it can, we can build a great tool here.
I remember when I applied for a Mead mailing list and got a nasty letter back saying 'your SPAM has been rejected!' just because I sent it from a Rogers.com address, so I know what it's like to be blacklisted like in SPEWS, and it sucks. That's not the way to do it.
Also, this new spam program retaliates and the law is very nasty about vigilantism and retaliation, perhaps because it threatens their monopoly. I don't want to see a spammer WIN in court, do you?
Also, program like popfile doe a great job of removing spam.
My advice is to forget kicking the spammers ass and just make their work vanish down a black hole like it will WHEN BAYESIAN TECHNIQUES ARE USED AT THE ISP END hint hint...
MS Software will NEVER be open. MS is all about closed proprietary systems people have to pay money to use.
Sooner or later Bill will grabe the Internet. I don't know how he's going to do it, but if there's anyone smart enough to do it it's him.
Now I can get my DVD player hacked by wise guys.
The whole point of tinysex is that you can't catch anything from it.
I was sent and installed the fix before I read about the vulnerability.
What they should do is have transparent encryption on the disk and let the user turn it off with a ctrl-alt-del-like key sequence then use a password when he gets back to turn it back on.
I bet that's out there somewhere.
That this firm had a SIXTY year old sys admin.
There's hope for me yet.
The Porn industry has lots of money to defend itself with.
Although myself I have never had trouble on eBay - 15 positive feedbacks, and never been burned.
As we watch capitalism drop the ball that Reagan gave to them.
After his administration removed so many of their restrictions, they are busy showing why they need restraining.
We can expect a big resurgence of the American Left in the next ten years or so.
running the search engine on Sourceforge, right?